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Plano police have issued a missing person report for a man with cerebral palsy who was last seen Friday evening. Corey M. Cann, 21, was last seen at his home on the 500 block of Hale Street in Plano at 7 p.m. Friday and has not be heard from since, police said today. Cann, who attended Southern Illinois University, uses a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy and can speak, police said. Some reports indicated Cann may have been in a tan truck but those reports have not been verified, police said.

Baruch and Joyce Schur were out of options. They couldn't find anywhere for their physically and intellectually disabled 26-year-old son to live, at least nowhere that met their criteria or didn't have a yearslong waiting list. The 55-year-old couple made plans to move out of the state. Uprooting themselves from their native Chicago, leaving friends and a family business, was the only way to give Josh a home - not an institution - that offered independence, a kosher kitchen and a sense of community before his parents became too elderly to care for him. But then the Schurs took an even bolder step.

On a recent fall day, Darlene Armstrong watched with wonder as the Shedd Aquarium's white-sided dolphins turned somersaults and splashed spectators. The 17-year-old disabled girl's life had changed dramatically since she was rescued from her Chicago home, where she weighed 23 pounds. The Tribune first reported her plight in June, months after she arrived at a hospital curled up on a stretcher. The medical staff focused on her shriveled 3-foot-10-inch frame, her sunken cheeks and protruding ribs.

There is a great candidate for the state House running to represent us this fall, and I want to make sure you know why I'm supporting her and you should, too. Democrat Elaine Nekritz has served the 57th District exceptionally well over the past decade. Yes, the state has faced some serious challenges in that time. I've seen it myself as a now-retired state employee. But with Nekritz's leadership, things are headed in the right direction. Nekritz is playing an important role in the pension reform discussions and trying to bring some much-needed sense back to our priorities in Springfield.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The Obama administration has agreed to relax Medicare's requirements for skilled nursing and home health care, allowing beneficiaries to qualify for benefits even if their conditions are not expected to improve, according to court documents. A proposed settlement of a national class-action lawsuit, filed Oct. 16 in U.S. District Court in Vermont, says the government will revise its Medicare manual to make benefits available when care would only "maintain the patient's current condition or ... prevent or slow further deterioration".

Attorneys for convicted Springfield power broker William Cellini filed a memorandum Thursday saying their client should be sentenced to probation because of his age, declining health and history of helping others. Supporters have submitted 364 letters to the court on Cellini's behalf, according to the sentencing memo. Those letters "echoed the sentiment that (he) led an exemplary life characterized by enormous integrity and profound concern for his community," the memo says. A federal jury convicted Cellini in November of trying to extort a contribution for then-Gov.

About three years ago, Anita Morse learned that her husband of nearly 20 years was suffering short-term memory loss, the result of rising ammonia levels in his system triggered by unregulated diabetes. Doctors had warned the McHenry resident, that Allen Morse, 62, could not be left alone. On a couple of occasions she took a chance to quickly run to the store, only to return home to burnt pots and pans left on an unattended ignited stove top. "He needs 24/7 attention," said Anita Morse, 62. "He forgets what he is doing, and I can't tell you how many pans I've had to replace.

(Reuters) - An investigation has been launched after a South Korean athlete with cerebral palsy accused his coach of abusing him at the London Paralympic Games earlier this month. The unnamed athlete also said the coach had taken money from him to pay for training sessions, the Yonhap News Agency said, adding that prosecutors in Incheon were investigating the reports. "During the Paralympics, the coach one night returned home drunk and hammered the athlete's head with a light stand," the athlete's aide told Yonhap.